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Date: | Friday 2 October 1953 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 |
Owner/operator: | 10 AFTS RAF |
Registration: | WP842 |
MSN: | C1/0726 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Tiddesley Wood, 3.5 miles SW of Pershore, Throckmorton, Worcestershire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Pershore, Throckmorton, Worcestershire |
Destination airport: | RAF Pershore, Throckmorton, Worcestershire |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10, WP842, 10 AFTS (Advanced Flying Training School), RAF Pershore, Throckmorton, Worcestershire. Delivered 28/8/1952. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 2/10/1953 when spun into the ground at Tiddesley Wood, three-and-a-half miles South West of Pershore, Throckmorton, Worcestershire
During a sortie from RAF Pershore, the Instructor Pilot took over control of the aircraft from the Pupil Pilot Under Instruction, because he did not believe that the Pupil Pilot was taking the correct recovery action from a spin. (The mission of the sortie was spinning practice, and recovery from spins). Despite taking control, the Instructor Pilot was not able to recover the aircraft from the spin, and the Chipmunk continued to spin until it struck the ground at Tiddesley Wood, three-and-a-half miles South West of Pershore, Throckmorton, Worcestershire.
Although the aircraft was wrecked (deemed "damaged beyond repair") the Instructor Pilot was uninjured, and the Pupil Pilot Under Instruction sustained minor injuries.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.150 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Last Take-off: A Record of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 Colin Cummings p 417
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
4.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WP 5.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1950-88.htm 6.
https://www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/nature-reserves/tiddesley-wood-harry-green-reserve Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2021 15:19 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
17-May-2021 20:15 |
BlB |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |